Extract parameters from string, included quoted regions, in Qt

Question

I have a Qt5/C++ program which receives a QString containing a program name and possibly parameters. I need to split this QString into multiple strings. For example, the strin

Answer 1

I'm not familiar with the particulars of Qt, however with a quick look at the documentation for QString, here, I believe that the following code should work (albeit inefficiently).

#include
#include

vector list; //vector used for variable length parameter requirements
QString args; //The arguments string
bool quoteFlag = false;
for(int i=0; i

Again, I do not use any Qt libraries, and this code is untested, but, if I understand the documentation, it should work.

As far as the -p 4 bit goes, that is not possible with your current syntax for the other arguments.